Technologies & Products
Introducing ActiveControl 8.3: New DevOps Innovation for SAP
Jenkins integration brings even more CI/CD possibilities to SAP change automation At Basis Technologies we have a long track record of ...
Agile & DevOps
6 metrics and success factors for Agile in SAP
So far in my Agile blog series, I’ve talked about the reasons why you should adopt Agile for SAP, how to tackle resistance and ...
SAP Automation
Why aren’t you making the most of your SAP systems?
As business leaders strive for competitive advantage, technology trends and the digital revolution are driving major changes to their SAP ...
Agile & DevOps
Using abapGit and containers to extend CI/CD workflows in SAP landscapes
There’s a lot of buzz about using abapGit to enable truly distributed ABAP development. We assess its potential for DevOps in SAP ...
Technologies & Products
Introducing ActiveControl 8.2: Powering DevOps for SAP and S/4HANA transition
The newest version of our DevOps automation software provides more SAP automation features than ever. “Plus ça change, plus c'est la ...
Agile & DevOps
DevOps for SAP: a 10-Step Guide to Help You Get There
“Why should we do DevOps in SAP?” It’s a fair question, and one the Basis Technologies team have heard from SAP users a lot since ...
Agile & DevOps
The fundamental importance of quality to DevOps Success
Adoption of DevOps requires enterprises to re-think their approach to quality in order to ensure that faster, more frequent delivery of ...
Agile & DevOps
Bringing CI/CD to SAP: A step-by-step guide
Hands up if you’ve ever felt a rush of excitement about DevOps, followed by the sinking realization that your SAP environment just ...
Customers & Partners
How a Successful Partnership Delights Customers
About 18 months ago I was driving through New York City with one of our account execs when he got a call from one of our customers. I ...
Agile & DevOps
How To Build a Business Case for DevOps
Software is vital to the success of businesses today. Quite simply, the speed at which you can change your software is the speed at which ...
Agile & DevOps
What Is the Difference Between Agile and DevOps
While we may all agree that the best run companies run on SAP, we may also agree that in the areas of development and testing, any ...
SAP S/4HANA
Why SAP Automation Is Crucial When Adopting SAP S/4HANA
If you’re not one of the 2,000-plus customers already live on SAP S/4HANA, it’s likely that you’ve started thinking about the best ...
Agile & DevOps
DevOps for SAP - what's the practical reality?
Whether or not you believe in the value that DevOps can offer to a business - and there’s already plenty of evidence to show that it can ...
Technologies & Products
Integrate SAP with your continuous delivery pipeline using latest ActiveControl 7.1
‘Practise what you preach’ is a mantra we live by here at Basis Technologies. We encourage our customers to use our automation ...
SAP S/4HANA
What to consider for your journey to SAP S/4HANA
S/4HANA isn’t the new kid on the block anymore. For some years the customers I work with have been challenged with the prospect of how ...
Agile & DevOps
Why your IT systems are like a Formula 1 car
So the new Formula 1 season is upon us and launches this Sunday in Australia. It seems like only yesterday that the last season ...
SAP Testing
Why regression testing in SAP is so important to your continuous delivery strategy
Plenty of us read articles online to keep up to date with the latest industry trends, as I often do, but nothing beats getting information ...
SAP Automation
The impact of cloud on SAP (and how Basis Technologies can help)
Cloud adoption is rapidly becoming a must-have for most successful businesses as they strive to embrace digital initiatives and ...
News
Announcing Testimony, a new approach to SAP testing with Robotic Test Automation
Testimony allows comprehensive SAP regression testing to begin in days. Test cases are created, executed and maintained ...
Events
SAPPHIRE NOW: ‘An inflection point for IT’
So it’s the end of another SAPPHIRE NOW & ASUG conference and now that I’m over the jetlag having returned to the UK, I wanted to ...
Agile & DevOps
How APIs can help unlock SAP agility
There’s a big challenge facing business in today’s digital world as they strive for agility. The need for companies to adapt and ...
Agile & DevOps
10 step SAP self-assessment: Are we doing DevOps?
Do you think that DevOps isn’t for you? That it’s not relevant to SAP? Or perhaps you are trying to achieve a DevOps culture, but ...
Agile & DevOps
DevOps for SAP: Laying the foundations for success
A lot has changed in the last 12 months. With digital transformation projects in the forefront of people’s minds the need to ...
Agile & DevOps
How to get started with Agile for SAP - 8 steps to success
I’ve written recently about the benefits an Agile development approach can bring to SAP and also some common misconceptions that are ...
Agile & DevOps
So, you think Agile can't work with SAP? 7 common myths debunked
In my last post I talked about the benefits and value an Agile delivery model can bring to a business running SAP. It’s a topic that’s ...
Agile & DevOps
5 reasons why you need an agile delivery model for SAP
I’ve talked a lot recently (and read even more) about the developing digital economy and how it’s driving a big change in the way ...
Agile & DevOps
Unit Test Automation: The prerequisite for Continuous Delivery in SAP environments
With the constant demand to develop and change SAP applications faster, the need for continuous delivery has never been greater. Agile, ...
News
ActiveControl certified by SAP for integration with applications running on SAP HANA
Everyone working in the world of SAP is constantly being bombarded with information about SAP HANA and how this underpins SAP’s future ...
Agile & DevOps
Digital Transformation - Tales from a Christmas shopper
I was online the other day doing a spot of Christmas shopping and, as usual, I gravitated towards retail behemoth that is Amazon. This is ...
Events
UK and Ireland SAP User Group Conference 2015
Some powerful opening remarks from the MD of SAP UK, Cormac Watters this morning at the UK & Ireland SAP User Group ...
Agile & DevOps
8 Steps to Safe Daily SAP Releases
How can organizations running SAP actually try to achieve the seemingly impossible - Safe, daily releases into production? I’ve ...
Agile & DevOps
Why you should embrace DevOps for SAP
I find myself spending more and more time with clients discussing how they manage IT change and what continuous delivery means to them. ...
SAP Automation
7 Key Steps to Automating your SAP change control processes
Automation is crucial for your business Over the many years that I've been involved in SAP change control, it may sound like a bold ...
Agile & DevOps
The Lean Mean SAP Development Machine
After my Monday morning slog up the motorway to work this week I realized as I was pulling into the car park that I had very little memory ...
Agile & DevOps
Is your SAP platform flexible enough for your business strategy?
I met an old colleague at Waterloo station last week. It was great to catch up after so many years and as we were boarding the train we ...
Technologies & Products
The insanity of SAP organizations that live with "unexpected outcomes"
I was reading a book recently where the author was talking about failure. What struck me was that he chose to avoid the negativity ...
Technologies & Products
What are the benefits of running parallel SAP development
These days many people know about what SAP calls a "5 system landscape". You may know it by a number of other names used by the SAP ...
